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Hello everyone, I need your help to know if this Apistogramma is a female of Cacatoides or another similar type like Apistogramma hongsloi red. Thanks for the support.
Hard to ID a fish from only 1 photo. To me it looks like a young male but not sure. It is not a hongsloi-like species because it shows a pronounced lateral spot, which A. hongsloi and all other regani-lineage species do not show. It might be a female A. cacatuoides, but a very odd colored one. It also might be one of the new D10-group species now being exported from Colombia, but again can't be sure. Was it sold as a female A. cacatuoides? Size?
Hi Mike! Really the seller wasn’t sure that it was a female of A. Cacatuoides and the size is about 5/6 cm. Today l buyed an original Cacatuoides female and it is completely different.
To me the red coloration that overlays the caudal spot very much points towards a hongsloi-like species. But as Mike says, hongsloi-like species are not supposed to show a pronounced lateral spot! Yet since black markings can be diminished by line breeding, as is seen in the partially missing lateral band of some double/triple/quad-red A. cacatuoides, maybe they can also be strengthend in certain cases? So maybe it's a line bred hongsloi or even some hongsloi-hybrid or just the exception that proves the rule...